Cotton sampler for cotton condensers



May 2, 193 G. E. GAUS ET AL COTTON SAMPLER FOR COTTON CONDENSERS File d Oct. 7, 1958 2 Sheets-Sheet l gvwczn vto'w [H-E'- EAUE V L E TEDREJNEKY May 2, 1939.

1 I G. E. GAUS Er AL COTTON SAMPLE FOR COTTON CONDENSERS 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Oct. '7, 1938 I 5- gwucm/to'wl llEIfi AUE \LLJE: TEDRDNEKY Patented May 2, 1939 COTTON SAlVIPLER FOR COTTON CONDENSERS George E. Gaus, Washington, D. 0., and Victor L. Stedronsky, Leland, Miss, assignors to Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture of the Uliited States of America, and his successors in cc Application October '7, 1938, Serial No. 233,774

(Granted under the act of March 3, 1883, as amended April 30, 1928; 370 0. G. 757) 3 Claims.

This application is made under the act of March 3, 1883, as amended by the act of April 30, 1928, and the invention herein described and claimed, if patented, may be manufactured and transition 0 for delivering the air-borne lint cotton to the condenser; and a lint slide E constituting the material outlet from the condenser.

In the first illustrative embodiment of this inused by or for the Government of the United vention (Figures 1, 2, and 3), parallel imperfo- 5 States of America for governmental purposes rate bands I, I characterized by the fact that they without the payment to us of any royalty are non-collective of lint cotton are secured thereon. about the cylinder B in spaced relation. Sup- This invention relates to new and useful importing strips 2, 2 are disposed with a small clearprovements in attachments for cotton gins or ance over said bands I, I, respectively. One of 10 condensers and is more particularly concerned the ends of each of the strips 2, 2 is secured to with a device designed to produce a truly repreblocks 3, 3, respectively, and the other ends of sentative sample of the contents of a bale of cotsaid strips are secured to the floor 4 of the lint ton upon completion of the conventional process flue transition C.

5 of ginning. Arcuated partitions 5, 5 having an outer con- 5 One of the objects of this invention is the protour substantially ogee, are secured by any suitvision of a means which may be applied to a cotable means on the members 2, 2 between the rollton condenser for obtaining a continuous unier D and the floor 4, substantially as shown. On form ribbon-like separation of cotton lint as it the sides of said partitions 5, 5 flexible flap seals is being formed into a hat on the screen drum 6, 6, 6, 6 are attached extending outwardly be- 20 cylinder of a cotton condenser after'the cotton yondthe edges of the supporting members 2, 2 lint has left the cotton gin and before it has been and rest on the periphery of the bands I, I. arranged in, bales. After the mass of air-borne lint cotton fibers Another object of this invention is the provienters the condenser from the transition C, it is 26 sion of means of the type mentioned which does separated by the partitions 6, 6 before striking not require the consumption of power in addition the cylinder B and being compressed into bats to that normally required by the condenser. by the roller D. One of these bats may be re- The following description, considered together garded as the sample bat. The flap seals 6, B, 6, 6 with the accompanying drawings will fully disprevent the escape of the lint laden air currents 30 close this invention, its construction, arrangeinto the clearance between the bands I, I, and 30 ments and combinations of parts, and further the supporting strips 2, 2. The supporting objects and advantages thereof will be apparent. strips 2, 2, also act as fillers so that the aerody- In the drawings: namic resistance at these points is made sub- Figure 1 is a plan view of a cotton condenser stantially equal to or greater than the aerodywith the cover of the housing removed showing namic resistance along the lint filled spaces be- 35 an illustrative embodiment of our invention tween the bottom of the roller D and the cylintherein. der B. The purpose of this is so that the dis- Figure 2 is an end elevation of Figure l with charged bats are definitely separated from each part of the wall of the housing broken away. other without any inter-felting of the lint fibers Figure 3 is an enlarged section along the line between the edges of the bats. 40 3-3 of Figure 1. Referring With more particularity to Figures Figure 4 is a plan view similar to that of Figure 4, 5 and 6 which show a modification of this in- 1 showing an alternative embodiment of this invention, the partitions 5, 5 instead of being supvention. ported on strips 2, 2 are simply secured to the Figure 5 is a section along the line 5-5 of floor 4 of the transition C in cantilever fashion. 45 Figure 4. In addition to this the roller D is provided with Figure 6 is a section along the line 6-6 of Figfixed concentric collars I, I operating in rolling ure 4. I contact with the bands I, I. The collars I, 1

Referring with more particularity to the drawcontacting the bands I, I, fill the space normally ings in which like reference characters designate existing at these points between the roller D and 50 like parts, the letter A designates the casing or the cylinder B, for the purpose of diverting the housing of a cotton condenser of the type well air-borne lint at these points. As a result the known in the art, having a perforated cylinder bats, upon discharge, are definitely separated B disposed on a powered shaft b; a compression from each other without any inter-felting of the roller D co-acting with said cylinder B; a lint flue lint fibers between the edges of said bats. 55

Having thus described our invention, we claim:

1. In a cotton condenser having a screen condenser cylinder, a compression roller co-acting therewith, and an intake flue transition; means for producing a sample bat of lint cotton, said means comprising parallel imperforate bands secured concentrically about the condenser cylinder, stationary partition walls non-collective of lint cotton supported over said bands on the intake side of the condenser between said compression roller and the floor of the inlet flue transition, there being a small clearance between said walls and said bands, and flexible sealing members attached to the sides of said walls extending outwardly and slidably contacting said bands.

2. In a cotton condenser having a screen condenser cylinder, a compression roller co-acting therewith, and an intake flue transition; means for producing a sample bat of lint cotton, said means comprising parallel imperforate bands concentrically secured tothe condenser cylinder, parallel imperforate collars concentrically secured to the compression roller in rolling contact with said bands, stationary partition walls noncollective of lint cotton supported over said bands on the intake side of the condenser between the compression roller and the floor of the inlet flue transition, there being a small clearance between said walls and said bands, and flexible flap members attached to the sides of said walls extending outwardly and slidably contacting the peripheries of said bands.

3. The combination with a cotton condenser having a housing, a rotatable screen cylinder, compression rollers, an outlet opening and an in let lint flue transition; of a plurality of spaced encircling imperforate band-like areas on the periphery of the screen cylinder disposed parallel to the ends of said cylinder, arch-shaped partitions having substantially an ogee outer contour, said partitions being superposed vertically above said imperforate areas and extended from the compression rollers in diminishing height to the floor of the lint flue transition, means for supporting said partitions in spaced relation to the outer surfaces of said imperforate cylinder areas and said compression rollers, and flexible flaps extended from the lower edges of said partitions to the surfaces of said imperforate cylinder areas.

GEORGE E. GAUS. VICTOR L. S'I'EDRONSKY. 

